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TV tonight: the season finale of a gloomily gripping Welsh drama

Has reporter Sian Reese-Williams uncovered the truth about Llŷr’s death? Plus Jack Thorne-penned Enola Holmes returns. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan given 'strict instructions' ahead of The White Lotus season 4 filming in France

The beloved actor, 60, is among a newly announced cast that includes Helena Bonham Carter, Max Greenfield and Vincent Cassel

Evening Standard

Back of the net! Steve Coogan film roles – ranked

As Manchester’s finest turns 60, with new film Saipan coming soon, we rank the British comedy hero’s best big-screen performances, from Tropic Thunder and Mindhorn to Philomena and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. A-Ha!

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TV tonight: the art wunderkind behind an $86m art fraud scandal

Inigo Philbrick, who spent two years in prison, tells his story in this two-parter. Plus, a macabre discovery in Limbs in the Loch. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The Thursday Murder Club to The Godfather Part II: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan lead a star-packed adaptation of Richard Osman’s popular murder mystery series – plus Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning mafia classic

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan says he now ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher because of Keir Starmer’s politics

‘I never thought I’d say that,’ Alan Partridge star admitted

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon announce The Trip’s return with season five in the Northern Lights

Series was previously thought to be over after the pair’s Greece-set instalment in 2020

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Steve Coogan spared driving ban after plea to save new series of The Trip with Rob Bryson

Steve Coogan said crew on The Trip with Rob Brydon would be affected if he received a driving ban

Evening Standard

‘It’s normalised. I was gawping’: Imogen Poots on making a movie in the West Bank

The actor was told to act like smoke by Terrence Malick and watched Peter Bogdanovich soak his cravat in iced water every day before he wore it. But nothing shocked her as much as filming her new drama set in a Palestinian school

The Guardian - UK

Shoshana review – Michael Winterbottom’s compelling romantic thriller set in 30s Palestine

This partly factual drama about the bright young things of British Mandate Tel Aviv offers insights into the politics of the time

The Guardian - UK

Shoshana review – a quiet love story entangled in deadly Middle East politics

Michael Winterbottom’s drama centres on the romance between a British police officer and a socialist Zionist writer but puts history-telling over emotion

The Guardian - UK

A Farewell To Arms: Everything We Know About The Ernest Hemingway Adaptation Starring Tom Blyth

A Farewell to Arms, one of Ernest Hemingway's best novels, is getting the film treatment... again.

Cinemablend

Hunger Games star Tom Blyth cast in new adaptation of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

The film will be written and directed by The Trip’s Michael Winterbottom

The Independent UK

Michael Winterbottom: ‘Studying English at Oxford University was a mistake’

The director, 62, tells Michael Segalov about vertigo, risk aversion, shouting to get attention and how Steve Coogan makes things easy

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Evening Standard

UK Jewish Film Festival 2023: our pick of this year's stellar line-up, from One Life to The Goldman Case

The festival's 27th edition will showcase an incredible variety of feature films, shorts and documentaries

Evening Standard

Shoshana review: Timely look at the birth of Israel doesn’t know what it wants to be

The events of Shoshana are painfully relevant once again - it’s a shame Michael Winterbottom isn’t sure what he wants to say with his historical political thriller

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a fantastic film about Sinead O’Connor takes on fresh poignancy

The singer spoke in a fascinating new interview before her death. Plus, Irish thriller Clean Sweep. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The Death of Dick Long to Greed: the seven best shows to watch on TV this week

Daniel Scheinert’s unsettling comedy takes a dark turn as three Alabama buddies go on a bender; while Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan serve up a loaded, semibiographical satire

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‘I’ve never been one of the cool guys’: Rob Brydon on mortality, jealousy and writing to Kevin Costner

In his new podcast, the best-connected man in showbusiness gently grills stars like Matthew MacFadyen and Noel Gallagher. So what has he learned about the secrets of success?

The Guardian - UK

‘I did my climactic speech – then took half an E’: Steve Coogan on making 24 Hour Party People

‘We re-created the Haçienda nightclub in a Manchester warehouse,’ says the film’s director, Michael Winterbottom. ‘It was chaos – people were crying because they were so nostalgic’

Evening Standard

Exclusive: Kenneth Branagh and Michael Winterbottom discuss the making of Boris Johnson drama This England

“The story reminds us of the whirlwind into which we were placed,” the actor says

Daily Mirror

Mirror's starring role in TV drama featuring Dominic Cummings Covid lockdown breach

The final episode of Sky Atlantic's This England, a drama about the Covid pandemic, focuses on the turmoil caused by the Mirror's front page revelations relating to Dominic Cummings

The Guardian - UK

I will never forget the brutal realities of the pandemic - This England brushes them aside

I saw abject failure, arbitrary death and utter helplessness. This is quite a different story, says former ambulance driver and academic Rod Dacombe

The New Daily

October streaming guide: Kenneth Branagh as PM, The White Lotus, witches and vampires galore

Kenneth Branagh plays former UK prime minister Boris Johnson in This England, there's a host of Halloween shows and The White Lotus goes to Italy

The Guardian - UK

This England review – so sympathetic to Boris Johnson it is absolutely bananas

Kenneth Branagh’s impression of the former coward-in-chief is spot on, but Michael Winterbottom’s Covid drama is leaden, artless and a disservice to all those who died

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